Sponsored briefing: The pandemic and Portuguese capital markets Guest Blog In 2019, our article in Legal Business ended as follows: ‘Therefore, with the benefits of a renewed legal and regulatory…
Sponsored briefing: Portuguese Market Update – Sustainable Financing Guest Blog The Paris Climate Agreement, signed in Paris on 12 December 2015, strengthened the call to action among the financial community…
Freshfields tax drama back in spotlight as Germany’s finance minister throws future mandates into doubt Nathalie Tidman Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has been dragged into the spotlight yet again for its role in the cum-ex tax scandal, with Germany’s…
The Client Profile: Sonya Rogerson, Bank of China Anna Cole-Bailey Born in Hong Kong to an English father and a Chinese mother but raised in Australia, Sonya Rogerson’s passion for…
Sponsored briefing: It’s the little things that count Guest Blog Emily Bernstein demonstrates how Investec can help to find personal banking solutions for clients in the legal industry The legal…
Guest comment: Covid-19 and City regulators – The limits of forbearance Guest Blog Forbearance is something of a dirty word in UK financial regulation, at least with regulators themselves. It describes a situation…
‘There are Formula 1 drivers and other drivers’ – who’s winning the race for London’s lev fin work? Georgina Stanley Georgina Stanley and Ben Wheway cast an eye over one of the City’s most contested practice lines ‘Leveraged finance is…
Linklaters turns to Asia for new banking head as Bugg steps down after three years Marco Cillario Linklaters’ Hong Kong based finance partner Davide Mencacci has replaced Tony Bugg to become the firm’s first non-London based banking…
Who Represents Who: The data behind the story Amy McDermott Clifford Chance finance clients, 2017 As LB looks at the future of finance, we look at the clientele of the…
Banking and finance focus: Back to the future Nathalie Tidman ‘The truth is no-one’s got the faintest idea what finance practices will look like in the future,’ shrugs Tony Bugg,…
‘No blueprint’: Looking back at Lehman’s wind-up Marco Cillario Lehman Brothers International (Europe) (LBIE)’s 5,500 employees left the London office at 25 Bank Street on Friday 12 September 2008…
Focus: Wild West or new frontier? Securities counsel divided as the cryptocurrency ‘float’ rears its blockchained head Marco Cillario Marco Cillario sizes up the pros and cons for legal advisers of the current ICO boom ‘We are in an…
Eversheds Sutherland settles £100m Northern Rock negligence case Hamish McNicol A £100m claim brought against Eversheds Sutherland by Northern Rock Asset Management (NRAM) has been settled. NRAM’s claim, which came to…
‘Incredibly strong’ – debt counsel gear up for another boom year in leveraged finance Nathalie Tidman Nathalie Tidman finds lawyers bemused by crazy pricing and a wall of debt ‘Short of Trump nuking North Korea, I…
Finance Nathalie Tidman Yen Sum, Sidley Austin Operating in some of the most fluid areas of finance, restructuring and funds specialist Yen Sum…
‘A no-brainer’: Milbank hires four-partner Cadwalader team to upgrade City restructuring business Marco Cillario It has long been a prestigious New York shop without ever quite gaining critical mass in London, but Milbank Tweed…
Waiting for Carney – hard times and hard choices for restructuring counsel Nathalie Tidman ‘Restructuring types will tell you the market’s just about to take off. It’s all going to hell in a handcart…
High-stakes: White-collar crime teams ready as SFO hits Barclays with landmark prosecution Legal Business White collar specialists scramble in landmark prosecution White-collar crime specialists have scrambled across the City as the Serious Fraud Office…
‘Hugely complicated’: Watson Farley, White & Case, A&O line up on $14bn shipping deal Tom Baker Watson Farley & Williams has advised a group of 27 international and local banks acting as financiers on a $14bn…
Hogan Lovells launches financial regulatory consultancy with PwC director appointment Legal Business Hogan Lovells is set to offer advice to through a new financial services regulatory consulting practice, hiring former PwC regulatory…
